Issue 30, Remnants

F.A.T.

by Christina E. Dent Issue 20 10.05.2009

In that moment, Annie wanted so, so badly to wriggle through one of the small apartment windows and run.  Anywhere.  Just run.

“If you could do that, hon, I wouldn’t be here.”  It was like she was inside Annie’s head.  How the hell did she know…. Her breath came in deep gasps.  She heard Terri trying to soothe her, telling her how happy she’d be, about all the success stories that had come out of the latest procedures, but Annie hardly heard any of it.  All she could see was her face in the mirror, floating, disembodied.  Her mouth was open, like she was screaming, but she couldn’t make any noise.  Over and over again she saw her own face at every turn, flickering the words of the new world order: Free And Thin.

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Christina E. Dent

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Christina E. Dent is not pictured, not because she is an eccentric recluse, but because she only just recently acquired a newfangled digital camera and has yet to figure out how to use it. When she’s not confused by modern technology, Tina enjoys reading 18th century British novels–for fun!–watching Hong Kong cinema, and an amusing life with three cats in a one-bedroom apartment.  The same cannot be said for her cats, who mostly enjoy eating, sleeping and destroying important documents.